HERE WE ARE. It’s a long story. BUT FIRST! This (last) week’s guest art!

This incredible guest comic is brought to you by Justin L, the creator of one of our very favorite web comics, Loki. We can’t recommend Loki enough — it’s got everything we love. Adventure, chase scenes, pseudo-cowboys, shirtlessness, queerosity and crossdressing wrapped up in bright colors and some fantastic art, character design and stylization. It’s also got that special ingredient that we’re always looking for — a great story with some characters who are incidentally gay while not being a comic ABOUT being gay. We need more of those in the world. Also, if you’re a One Piece fan, it has something we like to call the OP Factor — you can always tell when a comic artist is influenced by Eichiro Oda (and those are the ones we like best. >_>) You can check out Justin’s stuff on Tumblr or DeviantArt but most importantly GO READ LOKI!!!!

Speaking of amazing comics with awesome stories and gay characters, our good friend Alex who writes Artifice is running a Kickstarter to raise funds for a print version of his comic! If you haven’t read Artifice, you definitely should (so long as you’re over 18.) It’s a fantastic sci-fi story with gay overtones and the artist, Winona, is amazingly talented. We can’t wait to see Artifice in print form!

Now that we’ve got that over with, here’s what’s been going on with us and why we’ve been off the radar since our last update. As you may have read, we’ve been in the middle of a relocation from San Diego to the San Fran Bay Area. The plan was that we would be here last Friday, getting unpacked with internet ready for us! Unfortunately, we ran into problem after problem during the move. Where to start. First off, the truck we got ended up being about six feet short of being able to transport all of our ridiculous stuff (mostly tubs upon tubs of fabric, costumes and props from our long cosplay careers). We ended up having to leave a sad amount of crap in Dusty’s mom’s storage unit in SD. When we finally got the truck loaded, we went to close it and a wheel popped out of the track for the door. We had to unload a bunch of stuff so Dusty’s brother could climb in and fix it. Once we FINALLY got on the road for the 9 to 11 hour drive, we’d been set back a good five or six hours. JD and I made our way up the coast with our car shoved full of literally as much stuff as we could POSSIBLY fit into it. We’re talking things crammed in every possible nook and cranny — not to mention the bearded dragon, fish, two cats and collection of carnivorous plants. Meanwhile my wonderful little brother drove the truck up for us. Except that halfway through the drive, he came down with the flu and he and my mother had to stop overnight while he let his fever pass.

We finally made it to the house which is QUITE amazing and we are very happy to be here! We’re having a big upgrade with lots more space and the cats are so delighted to have room to run around. (The old lady, Myst, has been scampering around like a kitten. It’s pretty adorable.) However, the last bit of bad news for us was that something went wrong while they were hooking up our internet. It was supposed to be up and running when we arrived but instead, we’re not going to have any internet until WEDNESDAY. At the moment, I’m working from my tethered cel phone while JD is away to work on school at family’s house for the next several days. FUN STUFF.

Unfortunately, with all these complications, we’re going to have to take another week off for hiatus. We’ve got some more guest art coming to hold you over though, which we’ll post next Monday and THEN we’ll be back March 23rd. Sorry to leave you guys hanging!

In the meantime, we’ll be in Hawaii this weekend! Or I will anyway. Sadly, to save money after the move, JD is staying home for this year’s Kawaii Kon. It’s our fourth year at Kawaii Kon and it’s become one of our favorite cons so hope to see lots of you Hawaiians this year!

With Yuki’s transformation, there was a number of requests for some transformation wallpapers and you know we aim to please! So we hope you enjoy these wallpapers — they come in 2 sizes which we THINK are the standard ones… if you’re looking for different dimensions, let us know!

In case you’ve been out of the loop, we’re still offering our mad apologies for being unable to go back to updating. 🙁 Our move from San Diego to San Fran had some serious hiccups that set us back A LOT. We’ll have another guest art for you on Monday and then we’ll be back on schedule March 23rd.

This weekend Dusty’s in Hawaii at KawaiiKon (we can thank them for providing power at the tables and letting us get those wallpapers done!) while JD is home making sure the cats don’t lose their minds in the new house. We’ve got a weekend off and then we’ll be at Emerald City Comic Con, followed by Anime Boston and we MIGHT make a last minute trip to Sakura Con if we can swing it. Cross your fingers for us!

This weekend we also sent out the requests for the Alex/Yuki backstory that we’d had piling up for two weeks, SO sorry it took us so long to get that to some of you! If you didn’t get the backstory you requested, be sure to send in the form again.

Thanks for the recommendations, cuz WOW. Read all of Artifice, got up to page 83, and was so mad that it was the current page. Reading through Loki now and I’m liking so far. After that, I think I’m going to have to go through your list on the side there.

Lol, great page! Poor Mike…sometimes it’s hard to be “normal” when everything is conspiring against you!
I might just hop on over and check out their webcomic. I’m already a HUGE fan of Alex’s, as well as Winona and Artifice! If you haven’t read it yet, you won’t be disappointed!!
Sorry to hear you’ve been having so many problems with your move. At least you didn’t lose anyone on the way over and ya’ll made it safely to your destination!